Tag Archives: vpn

SOPA Strikes Back

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You all heard it by now as SOPA is everywhere. Today is a special day, when big sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and others protest against SOPA & PIPA. Since last few weeks it is a very hot topic for everyone and when Obama administration said it will not sign this legislation I thought – the [...]

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When VPN and Proxies Won’t Protect You from SOPA

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This is an article that is hard to write, especially for someone who’s been advising the use of VPN and proxies to anonymize their internet connection. It always hurts when what you’ve been preaching can’t just be the right answer … But anyway, you can’t have a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem, can’t you? But [...]

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70% of Users Are Using a VPN or a Proxy Service (or are Planning to Do So)

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15% of US adults file-sharers are hiding their IP addresses, thereby increasing the demand for VPN and proxy solutions. This is the result of a phone interview that “The American Assembly” recently published. On the other hand, the once called “The Pirate Bay” polled its users about their use of a hide-ip service, and it [...]

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My Selection of Hardware-based VPN Routers

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On my last article, I shared with you few criteria I’d use for choosing a hardware-based VPN router. If you look at it, my list of criterias is not very long, that is because IMHO there’s not much difference between the implementation of these routers if we just want to stay on the layman’s level. [...]

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Few Criterias for Choosing a Hardware-based VPN Router

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I’ve gone crazy doing lists and selection those last couple of days, most probably because it was the end of year where it’s usually the time for making plans for the new year and all those kind of stuff. Do you find yourself doing that kind of lists too? Anyway, this time, I wanted to [...]

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End of Year Book Readings Recommendations

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This is the end of the year, and some of us just like getting recommendations on books that they should be reading. Since we are into VPN and privacy topics, I thought I’d put a small list of books that are worth considering. So as to ease things, I have selected titles from Amazon’s database. [...]

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VPN and Cloud Computing: Growing Up Together

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From its conception, a VPN was meant to secure a connection that has to transit through a public network (via the internet for example). IT managers’ challenge was to find out the best encryption method that should be applied through this tunnel: they had to choose the protocols to be used as well as the [...]

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How Far Would You Go Troubleshooting Before Deciding to Contact the VPN Service Provider Support?

While testing one VPN solution, I’ve been advised to check if I have an anti-virus or firewall software installed on my computer. Although I can understand that there may be some conflict between the VPN solution and that PC protection software, I found the answer I received a bit harsh. Here is an excerpt of [...]

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Once Free VPN HotspotShield Lands on iOS as a Paid Version

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There’s a lot of Free VPN solutions that exist nowadays, some, like AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield are so popular that they have hitted the blacklist of services of geolocation-limited services like Hulu and BBC iPlayer. Nevertheless, HotspotShield continues its expansion, and it has now released an app for iPhone, iPod and iPad to encrypt your connections. [...]

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VPN Services: HideMyAss Review – Part 1

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This is part of the series of reviews on the current solutions that can help our readers to protect their privacy online. This article will discuss HideMyAss’offer. As of the time of writing, HideMyAss is available for the following platforms: Windows XP, Vista and 7: version 2.6.9 that was released on 20th July 2011 Mac [...]

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